Farming Scenes, Ploughing Etc, Pre-1900 Ploughing, c 1890

Farming Scenes, Ploughing Etc, Pre-1900 Ploughing, c 1890. A photograph of ploughing taken by Colonel Joseph Gale (c 1835-1906), in about 1890. This three horse team is pulling a plough uphill - the horses encouraged in their work by the ploughboy standing on the right. Agriculture in the nineteenth and early twentieth century was slow to adopt mechanisation. Horse teams for ploughs were still being in used in Britain until around the time of the Second World War. Joseph Gale specialised in naturalistic photographs of rural life and figures in landscapes. He was one of the first members of the Linked Ring Brotherhood and was also a member of the Royal Photographic Society. ©SSPL/NMeM/Kodak Collection